I think VR headsets are all about distant vision, don't be fooled by the lenses being just mm away from your eyes. For the Rift you can get 3rd party lenses made to your prescription.

The HP is praised for its picture but again it only has a software IPD adjustment It's also a fair bit more that a Rift but equally a fair bit less than a Valve anything. I got very close to buying a Reverb as HP had a glitch on their system and I could have got it £50 off. Sadly was too slow I'll wait now for more reviews and to see how quickly it may drop in price. Windows WMR headsets often are available with a good discount and it's only what 5 months to Black Friday

The rift is focused to just under infinity - so if you're short sighted like me then you'll see bugger all without your glasses My only option is the Index, with my eyes there's no way I'd be able to use the new Rift thanks to the software IPD adjustment and my tiny head.

Pete - do you have a link to the custom lenses? It would upset a friend of mine hugely, but I'd love to use it without having to wear glasses!

anyone here upgraded to a Rift S yet? I'm wondering whether its worth the expense considering its not a quantum leap over the cv1 version. Its dropped to £349 in most places now so not exorbitant but not cheap either. But it does have better resolution and is apparently more comfortable to wear for longer periods. For the amount of hours i wear it over the year for enjoyment/immersion i dont feel its too bad an expense to improve the all important visuals and a bit more comfort.

Haven't looked at the specs for the rift s, but for now I'm happy with my cv1. The upgrade from the dk2 I had before that was more on the level of integration with the audio and controllers than the graphics.

If I was going to upgrade right now I'd be looking for a wider field of view and a much, much higher res display. And to run that I'd need a much higher spec pc as well... The pimax headsets look interesting but don't offer a complete solution yet.

But despite the low res of the headsets compared to my 4k monitor, I'd never willingly go back to racing on a screen

I need some advice here guys. There is an Asus Radeon RX480 8gb on its way to upgrade my gaming rig and I was wondering if it would put me into the basic VR ballpark. And as someone is so nice to offer me a Rift cv1, practicly giving it away, i am now diving into the basic requirements for a Rift.

So my current rig uses an old but fast Xeon quad core (3.5ghz) which would have been good enough last year, but now i am reading about the Oculus Home installer checking for the SSE4.2 functionality and ruling out older processors from installing their software. It looks like I need to upgrade more than just the GFX card..

As most of my “happy budget” is spend on the new card, I am looking for a cheap and quick upgrade for the MoBo, CPU and RAM next to switching to W10. So are there still people running VR on older CPU’s like maybe an I7 2700K (socket lga1155)? These upgrade kits are fairly cheap to come by at this moment and would mean I can upgrade within budget. I will probably still get a message that my hardware is not meeting minimum requirements that way, but I have no clue if that is really a problem to run AC in VR..?

The other option is to source me a really basic LGA1150 or 1151 MoBo and processor, but one that does not have any good upgrade/overclock possibility’s.

I'm still managing to run my cv1 with an i5-3570k from 2013, although I've upgraded the gpu to a 1070. That said, I've been getting cpu occupancy >99% messages on and off, and I need to be thinking about an upgrade. Still, you should be okay with yours

I'm still managing to run my cv1 with an i5-3570k from 2013, although I've upgraded the gpu to a 1070. That said, I've been getting cpu occupancy >99% messages on and off, and I need to be thinking about an upgrade. Still, you should be okay with yours

Ok, good to know. So you don't have annoying messages that it is not compatible then? My quad core doesn't support SSE4.2 so I won't be able to install the Oculus Home installer it seems..

Are there people here that are running it on AMD processors? Ryzen should be good, but how about the older (FX) series? I haven't looked into AMD for ages, but wouldn't exclude them in my search for an upgrade.

Any Rift-s owners on here? I’ve tried searching for ways of disabling ‘guardian’ as it’s just not needed for sim racing and has recently been randomly losing tracking whilst mid race which is bloody frustrating. It seems linked with their recent driver updates as it was rock solid for months.

Any Rift-s owners on here? I’ve tried searching for ways of disabling ‘guardian’ as it’s just not needed for sim racing and has recently been randomly losing tracking whilst mid race which is bloody frustrating. It seems linked with their recent driver updates as it was rock solid for months.

No idea, can't you just tell the software to 'forget' the headset and then set it up again? Then you can skip the guardian bit when you reach it and that won't cause any problems.

There might also be an option in either the account tab or one near it..

According to all the vitriol on the Oculus forums, I’m not the only one not impressed by guardian interference and batteries lasting only a couple of weeks. Oculus only seem to respond to threads that suit them which incenses people further Never had these problems with the cv1 to be fair it’s only just started happening since a coupld of big win10 updates and oculus driver updates.